We, the undersigned, support legislation to prohibit the cloning of human embryos for either medical experimentation or for giving birth to a human being. Although we may differ in our views regarding reproductive issues, we agree that a human embryo should not be cloned for the specific intention of using it as a “resource” for medical experimentation or for producing a baby. Moreover, we believe that the market for women’s eggs that would be created by this research will provide unethical incentives for women to undergo health-threatening hormone treatment and surgery.

We are also concerned about the increasing bio-industrialization of life by the scientific community and life science companies and shocked and dismayed that clonal human embryos have been patented and declared to be human “inventions.” We oppose efforts to reduce human life and its various parts and processes to the status of mere research tools, manufactured products, commodities and utilities. We are also deeply troubled that at present there is no legal or ethical framework in place to regulate the accelerated commercial exploitation of this research.

We are mindful of the tragic history of social eugenics movements in the first half of the 20th century, and are united in our opposition to any use of biotechnology for a commercial eugenics movement in the 21st century.

Stanley Aronowitz The Graduate Center, CUNY

Benjamin Barber Kekst Professor of Civil Society University of Maryland, Democracy Collaborative

Susan E. Bell A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences Bowdoin College, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology

Philip L. Bereano University of Washington, Dept. of Technical Communication

Wendell Berry

Rajani Bhatia Coordinator Committee on Women, Population and the Environment

Norman Birnbaum Professor Emeritus Georgetown University

Madeline Boscoe Canadian Women’s Health Network

Fritjof Capra Director Center for Ecoliteracy

Erwin Chargaff Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry Columbia University

Harvey Cox Professor of Divinity Harvard University

Phyllis Creighton Research Associate, Faculty of Divinity Trinity College, University of Toronto

Irene W. Crowe President Pettus Crowe Foundation

Herman Daly Professor University of Maryland

Alice J. Dan Director, Center for Research on Women and Gender; Professor, College of Nursing and School of Public Health University of Illinois at Chicago

Kristin Dawkins Vice President Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Margrit Eichler Director, Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies New College, University of Toronto

Matthew Fox President University of Creation Spiritual

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities Emory University

Eugene D. Genovese

Todd Gitlin Professor of Culture, Journalism and Sociology New York University

Donna Haraway Professor University of California at Santa Cruz

Debra Harry Executive Director Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism

Paul Hawkin Director Natural Capital Institute

Hazel Henderson Author

Martha R. Herbert Pediatric Neurologist Massachusetts Gen. Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Ruth Hubbard Professor Emeritus Harvard University

Deborah Kaplan Executive Director World Institute on Disability

Anne S. Kasper, PhD First Chair, Board of Directors National Women’s Health Network

Naomi Klein Journalist and Author “No Logo”

David Korten President People-Centered Development Forum

Sheldon Krimsky Professor Tufts University, Urban and Environmental Policy

Michael Lerner Editor Tikkun Magazine

Judith Levine Author and Activist

Abby Lippman Professor McGill University

Norman Mailer Writer

Jerry Mander President International Forum on Globalization

Charles Margulis Greenpeace Genetic Engineering Campaign Greenpeace

Jacob Needleman Professor of Philosophy San Francisco State University

Stuart Newman Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy New York Medical College

Rina Nissim Naturopath and Author

David Noble Professor of History York University

Judy Norsigian Executive Director Boston Women’s Health Collective

Cheri Pies, MSW DrPH Associate Dean for Student Affairs University of California, Berkeley

Barbara Pillsbury, PhD Vice President International Health & Development Associates

Marcus Raskin Co-founder of Institute for Policy Studies Institute for Policy Studies

Susan M. Reverby Professor of Women’s Studies Wellesley College

Jeremy Rifkin President Foundation on Economic Trends

Mark Ritchie President Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Theodore Roszak Professor of History California State University, Hayward

Margie Schaps Executive Director Illinois Women’s Health Collective

Juliet Schor Professor of Sociology Boston College

Lillian Shirley Director Multnomah County Health Department

Evelyne Shuster, PhD Board Member of Global Lawyers and Physicians University of Pennsylvania

Huston Smith Professor Syracuse University

Wesley J. Smith Author/Consumer Advocate

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Editor Commonweal

Maureen Sullivan Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Northern Illinois University

Marty Teitel, PhD President Council for Responsible Genetics

Nancy M. Theriot Professor and Chairperson, Women’s Studies University of Louisville

Leonore Tiefer, PhD Clinical Asso. Professor of Psychiatry New York University School of Medicine

Maria Isabel Ibarrola Uriarte General Coordinator CIDHAL, A.C.

Judy Wicks President White Dog Café

Patricia J. Williams Professor of Law Columbia University

Susan Yanow Director Abortion Access Project

Quentin D. Young, MD Former President of the American Public Health Association American Public Health Association

Howard Zinn, PhD